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| − | [[Julia Manning]] is the founder and director of [[2020health | + | [[Julia Manning]] is the founder and director of [[2020health]], a web-based centre right think tank for health and social care, set up in 2006 to 'uniquely focus on bottom-up policy development by front line professionals. <ref> 2020health.org,[http://www.2020health.org/about_us_people.html People: Julia Manning BSc (Hons) MCOptom WCDC], accessed 14 September 2010. </ref> |
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Revision as of 11:38, 7 October 2010
Julia Manning is the founder and director of 2020health, a web-based centre right think tank for health and social care, set up in 2006 to 'uniquely focus on bottom-up policy development by front line professionals. [1]
Contents
Activities
According to the Sunday Times, Manning is a close adviser to the Tory leadership, and in January 2010 hosted a "Cameron Direct" town hall meeting for him.[2] That same month she also published a report that claimed ending free treatment for minor or “lifestyle” illnesses could save £20 billion a year — about a fifth of the annual budget. [3]
Manning was a prospective Conservative MP candidate for Gosport. "I got involved in politics because I was furious at the way that government was treating our public services," she says. [4]
Affiliations
- Director of the Institute of Optometry
- Founder member of the British Association of Behavioural Optometrists
- Blogs for CentreRight.com
- Lambeth PCT Professional Executive Committee (2004-07) [5]
Personal information
Biography
Manning was educated at Portsmouth High School and did her degree at City University in Optometry and Visual Science, graduating in 1990. She became a community optometrist, working first in Hertfordshire and then London, 'specialising in lens and refraction clinics at the Royal Free Hospital, and diabetes.[6]
Contact
- Address: 83 Victoria Street London SW1H OHW
- Phone: 020 3170 7702 or 020 3170 7703
- Mobile: 07973 312358
- Website: http://www.2020health.org/about_us_people.html
Resources
Blog: http://2020health.wordpress.com/
Notes
- ↑ 2020health.org,People: Julia Manning BSc (Hons) MCOptom WCDC, accessed 14 September 2010.
- ↑ Cameron Direct Online: Health,[1], 8 January 2010, (accessed 14 September 2010)
- ↑ Jonathan Oliver,Tory adviser Julia Manning wants end to minor treatments on NHS, Sunday Times, 10 January 2010, accessed 14 September 2010.
- ↑ Julia Manning, one of Gosport's prospective Conservative MP candidates, outlines her plans
- ↑ Julia Manning LinkedIn profile (accessed 14 September 2010)
- ↑ Julia Manning LinkedIn profile (accessed 14 September 2010)
